Marketing Manager - Electrical Distributors Association (EDA)

Electrical Distributors' Association; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trade body in the UK is seeking a Marketing Manager in London. The role focuses on delivering marketing services, driving community initiatives, and enhancing the digital presence. The ideal candidate will possess strong digital marketing and copywriting skills, with experience in B2B environments. This position offers a competitive salary, hybrid working, and excellent training opportunities.

Benefits

Salary circa £50k

Contributory pension (matched up to 6%)

25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays

Exceptional training and development opportunities

Bupa Health and Dental cover

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy marketing team, ideally in a B2B or service-led environment.
• Knowledge of CMS platforms and digital marketing strategies.
• Editing and proofreading skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver outstanding marketing services across key community pillars.
• Drive business community through events and publications.
• Develop content for multiple platforms.

Skills

Excellent digital marketing skills

Strong copywriting skills

Knowledge of LinkedIn and social platforms

Experience in e-marketing and lead generation

Tools

Google Analytics

Salesforce CRM

WordPress

Job description

Marketing Manager
Tower Hill, London (Hybrid Working)

The Company

Founded in 1914, the Electrical Distributors’ Association (EDA) is the trade body for the UK’s electrotechnical wholesale distribution sector. Representing around 75% of the market, our membership spans national chains, independent businesses, and affiliated manufacturers and service providers.

We support the sector across four core areas: business community, education and training, digitalisation, and industry insight - empowering members to grow and adapt in a rapidly evolving, low-carbon economy.

We are now looking for a Marketing Manager to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working from our offices near Tower Hill, with some flexibility for hybrid working and occasional UK travel.

The Benefits

- Salary circa £50k based on experience
- Contributory pension (matched up to 6%)
- 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Combined working from home and from our offices based near St Katharine Docks
- Exceptional training and development opportunities
- Bupa Health and Dental cover

This is a fantastic opportunity for a talented and creative marketing professional with B2B and campaign planning experience to join our reputable and well-connected organisation.

You’ll have the chance to take the reins of an award-winning marketing function, unleashing your creativity, shaping strategy, and driving campaigns that will elevate our brand across the industry.

What's more, you will discover an environment focused on innovation and personal growth, where there are real prospects for career progression into a leadership role and ample training and development opportunities.

The Role

As our Marketing Manager, you’ll be delivering outstanding marketing services across the four key pillars of our work.

Specifically, you’ll be driving our business community through events, publications, networking and visibility, and supporting digitisation by promoting our award-winning data pool to manufacturers and wholesalers.

You’ll promote our industry-leading training programmes and delivering, whilst also becoming involved in sharing and disseminating industry insights. This will involve surveys across the industry, and creating and sharing topical content.

Involving yourself in every aspect of marketing, you’ll be the heart and soul of our activity, creating plans and campaigns, running analytics to help us do better and using Salesforce CRM to build our marketing platform.

On top of this, you will:

- Develop content for multiple platforms
- Write and create video and graphics
- Liaise with the press
- Support our online presence
- Assist with lead generation activities
- Co-ordinate and promote our events programme
- Attend trade shows, exhibitions and conferences

About You

To be considered as a Marketing Manager, you will need:

- Experience in a busy marketing team, ideally within a B2B or service-led environment
- Excellent digital marketing skills including an understanding of Google analytics, and /or other analytics tools, and SEO
- Content development experience and strong copywriting skills
- Knowledge of LinkedIn and social platforms
- Experience in campaign planning, e-marketing, analytics, and lead generation
- Knowledge of CMS platforms (especially WordPress)
- An understanding of the principles of CRM and e-marketing
- Editing and proofreading skills

Other organisations may call this role Marketing and Communications Manager, Marketing Campaign Manager, Digital Marketing Manager, or Marketing Lead.

Webrecruit and the Electrical Distributors’ Association are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business, and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you’re ready to take ownership at the heart of a fast-evolving industry as our Marketing Manager, apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.